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Kanji Detail for 鈞 - "weight unit, potter's wheel, weigh, equal"
鈞
- Meaning
鈞 means "weight unit, potter's wheel, weigh, equal."
Weight unit - A measure equal to 30 jin.
Potter's wheel - A device used for making pottery.
Weigh - To measure weight.
Equal - Uniform; the same.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
equal; important point
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
unit of measure equivalent to thirty catties
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
30 catties; great; your (honorific)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
unit of weight equal to thirty catties; your (formal)
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
An ancient unit of weight. Thirty jin. The Mencius says: "Now say lifting a hundred jun." | When potters make round vessels, the rotating wheel is called 鈞. It was anciently the most skillfully crafted instrument. Therefore Heaven is called 大鈞, meaning it creates all things like a potter at the wheel. Cultivating talent is also called 鈞陶. | A term of respect. As in correspondence saying 鈞鑒 (your esteemed inspection), 鈞安 (your esteemed peace), 鈞啓 (your esteemed opening) and the like. | Same as 均. Equal.
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